Branding & Accomplishments BluePrint – Infinite Potential Resumes

Branding & Accomplishments BluePrint

Name

Target Salary Range

Position/Career Target: List your top three job title choices in order of preference.

Job #1

Job #2

Job #3

Education/Degree(s) Completed

Certifications Earned

Professional Licenses Earned

Training Courses / Programs Completed

Languages (fluency — verbal/written)

Professional Organizations/Affiliations: (include offices held)

Publications / Presentations: Title / Periodical / Location / Date / Links

Context / Challenge / Action / Results Statements (CCAR)
This exercise will help you identify your accomplishments to be included in your resume.
Think about this… What are your most notable past accomplishments that would lead us to believe you can deliver significant results for your next employer/company? Employers generally formulate interview questions around the skills they are seeking in a candidate. These skills can be:

Job-Specific: Technical skills that are gained through education, training, and/or hands-on experience.
Transferable: Skills such as problem-solving, organization, or leadership – that are inherent to you, not specific to any one job.
Interpersonal / Soft Skills: Skills such as communication and collaboration.

While completing the following sections:
Remember to refer back to your old performance appraisals to jog your memory about the results you achieved or impacts you made during your career.

Think about what you did in current and past jobs.
Think about projects you completed or participated in at school as a student or team member.
What problems did you solve?
What solutions did you come up with?
What benefits did your ideas and solutions have for the business, customers, or other employees?
Ask yourself: "How is this company better off now than when they hired me?” Did you increase sales? Improve production or processes? If so, by what percentage or amount?
Quantify as much as possible as you walk through this critical exercise.

Exercise: Identify and provide up to 5 skills that are required for the position(s) you are seeking, and how you applied those skills to make an impact in your current or prior roles. These skills may be identified in the job posting or by reviewing similar job descriptions online, on O*NET — http://www.onetonline.org/, or the Occupational Outlook Handbook — http://www.bls.gov/ooh/.

Skill #1

Context (“While working at”)

Challenge (“I was given the responsibility to”)

Action (“So I”)

Result (“As a result of my efforts”)

SKILL #2

Context (“While working at”)

Challenge (“I was given the responsibility to”)

Action (“So I”)

Result (“As a result of my efforts”)

SKILL #3

Context (“While working at”)

Challenge (“I was given the responsibility to”)

Action (“So I”)

Result (“As a result of my efforts”)

SKILL #4

Context (“While working at”)

Challenge (“I was given the responsibility to”)

Action (“So I”)

Result (“As a result of my efforts”)

SKILL #5

Context (“While working at”)

Challenge (“I was given the responsibility to”)

Action (“So I”)

Result (“As a result of my efforts”)

Provide relevant and detailed responses to the questions for each job you’ve held in the last 10-15 years.

1. What are your top 5-10 areas of expertise?

2. What would you rate as your top three (3) skills? Elaborate on why these are your top skills.

3. Why do people come to you or seek you out for advice?

4. Were you chosen for any additional work assignments or projects? What were the assignments / projects? Why were you chosen?

5. What new processes / procedures / strategies have you introduced or improved at your current or past employers? Introduced automated tools, programs, and systems? How did the improvements impact performance, operations, business, and the team?

6. What have you done in your respective roles/positions to improve the following:
• Internal or external communications and customer relations:
• Teamwork:
• Operations:
• Policies / Procedures:

7. How many employees you supervised in each role/position you held? What were their roles/job titles? Did you complete performance appraisals, or provide input for the employees you supervised?

8. Detail your experience and impacts regarding the following items for each employer, where applicable. Remember to include quantifiable data, if available.

• Budget (Include how much money was in the budget you managed.)
• Operations Management:
• Strategic Planning – Contributions to strategic planning and long-term business goals
• Production – Increases in production results/output? Improvements in production?
• Hiring – At what level? Entry-level, mid-level, senior leadership?
• Staff Training & Development – Who did you train? What was the success / outcome for those employees – promotion, new career?

9. Please provide a full listing of all your technology/technical knowledge – systems, applications, languages, programming, tools, methods, databases, and architecture.

10. How was your performance measured in reviews — and what was the outcome (awards, recognition, and promotion)?

11. What have you done to expand the scope of your job responsibilities during your career?

12. What do others say about you and your work? Are there any great quotes about you that you would like to share from prior performance reviews or emails?

13. What words do people use to describe you when they introduce you to others?

14. What makes you feel most confident?

15. What are your Short-Term Goals?

16. What are your Long-Term Goals?

17. Where do you see your industry / profession / function going in the next 5 years? How are you positioned to lead during the shift?

Lastly, provide 2-3 job postings for the type of positions you’re interested in pursuing

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